The Guardian Higher Education

JULY 2, 2023

Group issues 12-point plan calling for stricter immigration rules for care workers, students and refugees Rishi Sunak is facing demands from “red wall” Conservative MPs to slash the number of overseas care workers, foreign students and refugees allowed into the UK in time for the next election. Continue reading.

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The Guardian Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Sign up here for our daily newsletter, First Edition Officially there are no black chemistry or physics professors in the UK, which many scientists say is all the data needed to conclude that UK science is institutionally racist.

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The Guardian Higher Education

JUNE 2, 2023

Since almost one-fifth of UK students in higher education now come from abroad – 125,000 of them from China – there is near panic at the Home Office’s determination to slash student immigration. This follows reports that one-third of England’s universities are trading at a deficit.

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The Guardian Higher Education

MAY 25, 2023

Suella Braverman has announced new limits for international students to bring dependents with them when studying in the UK Suella Braverman has announced new limits for international students to bring family with them to the UK, under proposals released on Tuesday. Continue reading.

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Buddy4Study

JUNE 14, 2021

Why Study in Germany – Study abroad Comparisons to UK and USA. USA has an average tuition fees of EUR 30,500 per academic year for international students, while the UK charges an average of EUR 31,000 per academic year. With just a semester contribution of EUR 250 you can study in some of the best institutions in the country.

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The Guardian Higher Education

MAY 12, 2024

Creative UK and Universities UK urge government to reject plans to abolish or restrict graduate visa route Universities are reporting a steep drop in international students applying to come to the UK, amid warnings that further restrictions on student visas would torpedo a vital flow of talent for Britain’s creative industries.

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The Guardian Higher Education

MARCH 26, 2024

Former chief inspector of borders says Home Office does not appear to have identified any lessons from ‘this debacle’ In interviews this morning Gillian Keegan , the education secretary, admitted that special educational needs provision was in crisis, Ben Quinn reports.

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The Guardian Higher Education

MARCH 12, 2024

In a letter to the Migration Advisory Committee (MAC), Cleverly asked the body to investigate whether the graduate visa entitlement – allowing international students to work for two or three years after graduating – was failing to attract “the brightest and the best” to the UK. Continue reading.

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The Guardian Higher Education

NOVEMBER 11, 2023

The decision, which furious colleagues have called “an act of unthinkable cruelty”, will fuel fears that the government is disproportionately blocking academics from the global south from coming to the UK, despite Rishi Sunak’s pledge to make Britain a global “science superpower ”. Continue reading.

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The Guardian Higher Education

JANUARY 31, 2024

But that need is generated by cuts Jonathan Portes is professor of economics and public policy at King’s College London Since 2010, the number of international students in the UK has increased by up to 70%, while entry to the most competitive universities has become more and more difficult.

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The Guardian Higher Education

MARCH 31, 2024

Sunak’s willingness to clamp down on international student numbers coincides with what one expert called a funding crisis for universities that could undermine the entire sector.

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The Guardian Higher Education

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Sajid Javid had wanted review process for international students who believed their visas had been wrongly cancelled ‘It destroyed my life’: the students accused of cheating in English tests What is the Home Office English test scandal?

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The Guardian Higher Education

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

No – in fact, they’re propping them up, 31 January ) has been on their overall value to the UK economy or to universities’ financial positions, or their impact on opportunities for British students.

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The Guardian Higher Education

NOVEMBER 27, 2022

Former universities ministers David Willetts, Jo Johnson and Chris Skidmore say PM’s move will hit economy and levelling up Rishi Sunak is facing an immediate backlash over plans for a “mindless crackdown” on overseas students , as three former Tory university ministers warned it would hit attempts to level up the country and hold back Britain’s faltering (..)

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The Guardian Higher Education

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

A draconian blanket response to evidence of cheating by some international students in the early 2010s was flawed and unjust “Many of us are destitute … many of us are on medication for stress and depression. Many of us have been rejected by our families, who are ashamed by the allegation of cheating.

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The Guardian Higher Education

JANUARY 11, 2024

Staff at the Russell Group university were told: “In response to the current financial challenges, the university has decided to lower its tariff for all departments and programmes for overseas applicants,” according to an email reported by the Financial Times.

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The Guardian Higher Education

FEBRUARY 11, 2023

Education secretary says UK ‘should be very proud of’ university sector, amid briefings with Suella Braverman Gillian Keegan has signalled that she disagrees with the Home Office’s plan to cut migration by targeting overseas students, adding the financial boost from international students to British universities was “hugely valuable”.

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SRHE

APRIL 17, 2024

In 2024 we do expect a general election, but we don’t expect the massive problems for UK HE to be an election issue. The war on woke has not perhaps reached that pitch in the UK yet. In the US some prominent university presidents lost their jobs arguing with politicians about the need to protect diversity in HE debate.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

APRIL 25, 2023

Higher ed leaders looking to not only expand their underrepresented student population to include diverse communities but to ensure they succeed can actually replicate a comprehensive program from the University of Cambridge’s Lucy Cavendish College in the UK. But it’s quite different in the UK, as I understand it.

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The Guardian Higher Education

AUGUST 22, 2023

Article says Commons could bypass the parliamentary standards machinery after Labour leader says MP should be forced out Starmer says there is a massive mismatch between what the government is saying about how things are going well with the economy, and the lived experience of people.

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The Guardian Higher Education

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Justine Greening argues against move to restrict number of international students at British universities Justine Greening, the former Conservative education secretary, has attacked Rishi Sunak’s proposals to limit the number of international students at British universities, arguing that the move could have a “severe negative impact” on the country. (..)

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The Guardian Higher Education

MAY 15, 2023

Report finds economic benefit to UK rose by a third in three years, making overseas students a significant contributor to economy The economic benefit international students bring to the UK has jumped by a third in three years, boosting the economy by an estimated £42bn in 2021/2, according to new analysis. Continue reading.

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The Guardian Higher Education

APRIL 8, 2023

Now the University of Law has reported him to the Home Office An international student who travelled to the UK two months early after being given the wrong enrolment date by his university is facing deportation after it reported him to the Home Office. A mix-up on dates meant Rasikh Aziz travelled from Pakistan too soon.

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The Guardian Higher Education

OCTOBER 8, 2023

Three men say their visas will expire before they receive their degrees from Coventry university Three international students are facing deportation after an alleged technical glitch at their university meant they did not get a final grade.

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The Guardian Higher Education

AUGUST 14, 2023

Government urged to grant current cohort of Afghans on Chevening scholarship programme indefinite leave to remain Afghan scholars studying in the UK under a Foreign Office scheme say they live in fear of being forced back into Taliban clutches.

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SRHE

OCTOBER 13, 2023

The first part of this (HS1) was achieved some years ago through investment in infrastructure connecting the UK with the rest of Europe. At the next level, what we used to call further and higher education will be swept away to create a new Higher Skills curriculum. But now we need to change course.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

His Between Kin and Cosmopolis offers a qualified defense of nationalism, border protection, and restrictions on mass immigration, arguing that it’s important for nation states to assert their cultural distinctiveness and to regard themselves as distinct moral communities.

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SRHE

APRIL 20, 2023

Students’ unions are often conflated with the National Union of Students (UK), but many students’ unions [1] did not have ‘no platform’ policies and a few were not affiliated to NUS, which is a confederation of students’ unions, guilds and associations. Has it been tangled up with a populist view of HE in the UK?

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The Guardian Higher Education

DECEMBER 11, 2023

If universities cannot recruit the best candidates from around the world, it will damage UK higher education. These positions are competitive, and anyone qualified for them is likely to have spent the best part of a decade becoming an expert in their field. Continue reading.

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AIFS Abroad

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Health science courses available in London include: Comparative Health Care : Through experiential site visits, analyze the evolution of the national health care system in the UK and the strengths and weaknesses of its single payer universal health care system.

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The Guardian Higher Education

MAY 23, 2023

Asked whether the UK needed an industrial strategy, he replied: That means different things to different people. There are a limited number of very sensitive sectors of our economy, or types of technology, where we want to take a particularly robust approach: semiconductors, for example, dual-use technologies, quantum, etc.

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SRHE

JANUARY 17, 2024

At the time of writing, the UK news agenda is being dominated by what is being described as one of the biggest miscarriages of justice the country has ever seen – 736 post office workers between 1999 and 2015 were prosecuted for false accounting or theft based on information from an IT system called Horizon.

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